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Garth Brooks, George Strait teaming up for ACMs

Garth Brooks and George Strait will perform together at next month's Academy of Country Music Awards, as part of a tribute to the late Dick Clark. It will be the first time the two have performed together.

Garth Brooks and George Strait will perform together at next month's Academy of Country Music Awards, as part of a tribute to the late Dick Clark.

According to the Academy of Country Music, it will the first time the two Country Music Hall of Famers have performed together.

As part of the tribute segment, the ACM Artist of the Decade award will be renamed the ACM Dick Clark Artist of the Decade award, in honor of the music icon, who passed away in 2012. Clark began producing the ACM awards show in 1979. Clark's son, R.A. Clark, is one of the show's executive producers.

Strait and Brooks are the award's two most recent recipients.

"Although there is no award the entertainment industry has that can match the magnitude of the star Dick Clark was, and still is, it is an honor to get to be a part of the academy's tribute to him," Brooks said via a media release. "There may be others who have contributed as much to the music industry, but there is definitely no one that has contributed more than Dick Clark. He was music's best friend, and a dear friend to me."

The 48th annual Academy of Country Music Awards will air live from Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7 (CBS, 8 p.m. ET/PT).